. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. attributed toJohannes Saenredam, who lived at Zaandam from 1565to 1607. Recent criticism has cast some doubt on thissupposition, but if it is not Saenredams work it isby one who flourished about the end of the sixteenthcentury. In the foreground will be seen a character-istic Mediterranean galley with her long, low-lyinghull, her beak and enormous yards, on which were setthe lateen sails. You may perhaps wonder for themoment what a Southern galley was doing in theport of Amsterd
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. attributed toJohannes Saenredam, who lived at Zaandam from 1565to 1607. Recent criticism has cast some doubt on thissupposition, but if it is not Saenredams work it isby one who flourished about the end of the sixteenthcentury. In the foreground will be seen a character-istic Mediterranean galley with her long, low-lyinghull, her beak and enormous yards, on which were setthe lateen sails. You may perhaps wonder for themoment what a Southern galley was doing in theport of Amsterdam, until you recollect the yearswhen Spain and Holland were so closely boundtogether. The galley was not beloved by the Dutch-men, or they would have continued to build thistype, but for a long time Holland was under Spanishtyranny, and so, naturally enough, the Spanish galleycame northwards from its own sunny waters to thefogs and cold of the Low Countries. Sailing about in the same picture, in wonderfulcontrast to this slim, narrow type of vessel, are to beseen the Dutch fore-and-afters with their ample beam. Q >. > c >> a Si; bjQ H < 0-5 -L. V ^_, O ?5-G < 2-2; i: 3t;S ° -SK do IN NORTHERN EUROPE 71 but comparatively short length. To the right of thegalley, also in the foreground, is to be seen a largesloop, the staysail of which is just visible. It will benoticed that the outermost end of the bowsprit is clearof any foretopmast stay, as we remarked on anotherpage was the custom, and the square water-sail, withits yard and sheets, as in the full-rigged ships, will beobserved below the bowsprit of this sloop. It isnoticeable that three out of the four sloops are fittedwith leeboards, so we have the fact established thatthese date back at any rate to about the year to when they first came into use cannot be ascer-tained, though it is possible that it was sometimeduring the sixteenth century. An authoritative workpublished in Amsterdam about a centur
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